Rather Quotes

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly.

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.

When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

I'd rather go by bus.

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.